Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present Objects in Pieces, the second solo exhibition of Paul Bloodgood at the gallery. The show consists of new paintings and collages, which continue his ongoing practice of fragmentation and reassembly.

Bloodgood has made his career mining texts and images from artists, poets and philosophers, reassembling them into landscapes without the constraints of any one specific genre of painting or poetry. His method is based on fracture and assembly.

In October 2010, the artist suffered a brain injury, which altered his visual system, including the ability to make perceptual closure—to “make whole,” perceptually, objects viewed only in part. The works in this show straddle Bloodgood’s two perceptual worlds. Before, he would break things apart to understand them. Now the converse is necessary—he assembles fragments, reassembles, in order to understand them.

Abstraction’s imperative to grant the medium priority over the subject matter frees the line, the mark, from what it delivers. In place of a requirement to convey information, there is in Bloodgood’s paintings, an exploration of the expressive capability of line as an embodiment of naturalistic form.

Co-founder and curator of the AC Project Room, Paul Bloodgood has been an important figure in the New York art world for the past two decades. His work has been exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery, 303 Gallery and at the 2007 White Columns Annual. He received his MFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art in Portland and his BA in Painting from Yale University. Paul Bloodgood was a 2009 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.